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1. Such as do not grow in grace, decay in grace. There is no standing at a stay in religion, either we go forward or backward; if faith does not grow, unbelief will; if heavenly mindedness doth not grow, covetousness will. A man that doth not increase his stock diminisheth it; if you do not improve your stock of grace, your stock will decay. The angels on Jacob's ladder were either ascending or descending; if you do not ascend in religion, you descend.
2. "In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace."
3. "Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles."
4. "Grace will not suffer a vacuum, any more than nature."
5. "He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries."
6. "We believe, that the work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification and faith, is not an act of man's free will and power, but of the mighty, efficacious and irresistable grace of God."
7. "None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full."
8. "Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!"
9. "The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy."
10. "Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
11. "The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon divine grace."
12. "Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind."
13. "A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart."
14. "I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion."
15. "Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved."
16. "GRACE-------God's Riches At Christ's Expense."
17. "We are justified, not by giving anything to God, ---what we do, --- but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us."
18. "How many are quite unworthy to see the light, and yet the day dawns."
19. "Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved."
20. "In efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God produces all, we act all. For that is what produces, viz. our own acts. God is the only proper author and fountain; we only are the proper actors. We are in different respects, wholly passive and wholly active."
21. Was it not great blindness that God Almighty, who created us, has so often made known to us that he is our Father, and finally even gave his Son for us; and he himself stands there and calls us poor sinners, saying "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." And we went and turned to the creature, and thought God to be so rough and cruel that we dare not come to him."
22. "Grace is but Glory begun, and Glory is but Grace perfected."
23. "This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners, for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's, but ours."
